5 decades of educating surgeons at North Carolina-based New Hanover Regional Medical Center

New Hanover Regional Medical Center, in Wilmington, N.C., has been serving the Cape Fear area since 1965, according to StarNews Online.

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Here are five things to know:

 

1. Six hundred applicants competed for three spots last year.

 

2. Now a five year program, the surgery residency program started as a two-year program trying to push doctors into the rural areas of the state.

 

3. Thomas Clancy has been the program director since 2007.

 

4. The center was founded by the late Lockert B. Mason, MD, and the University of North Carolina.

 

5. The residency was established to produce more surgeons in North Carolina and nationally. Currently, the center urges surgeons to stray away from specialization and towards general practice, as the nation is lacking in general surgeons.

 

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